wii-u-gc-adapter VS hidapi

this has worked for me before: https://github.com/ToadKing/wii-u-gc-adapter

(assuming you are talking about rivals of aether), i have played for some time using the https://github.com/ToadKing/wii-u-gc-adapter driver which is the only one that seemed to work with the mayflash adapter on wii-u mode. Its not a very good experience compared to windows since the game does not recognize the game as a gamecube controller but it sees it as an xbox pad, so the stick sensitivity feels off

Ok, thx it works now. I just had to switch to wii u mode on the adapter. it was super dumb, and it worked out of the box on linux : for linux users : just git clone https://github.com/ToadKing/wii-u-gc-adapter and it will work. You can also overclock the adapter under linux by git cloning https://github.com/HannesMann/gcadapter-oc-kmod and do what the readme says

cd git clone https://github.com/ToadKing/wii-u-gc-adapter cd wii-u-gc-adapter make

And then you need to clone the repo. I suggest cloning it in your home directory.

On the computer, write a program (the "host" or "server") that talks over the raw HID protocol. It is open ended how you do this, but IME both the Python pyhidapi and C hidapi were simple enough to get something started. The trickiest part might be getting the program to run with the permissions to talk the raw HID protocol (at least on Linux, there was some udev rule to set up). Read the documentation for these libraries for details about how to get set up.

now I'm trying to figure out what to do with the next step for building my own host. Am I supposed to put this test file in my qmk code? or run it on my computer as it's own separate program? https://github.com/libusb/hidapi/blob/master/hidtest/test.c

HIDAPI

I did star https://github.com/libusb/hidapi too, as well as this GitHub.

I used ffigen to get the bindings from hidapi.h and cleaned up quite some of the resulting output to make it Dart compatible. Quite some typedef and some minor stuff.

I figured out the problem with JoyconLib! The hidapi.dll file was broken so I replaced it with a new file from https://github.com/libusb/hidapi/releases and not it's working.

https://github.com/libusb/hidapi#prerequisites

Install the HID API, instructions here: https://github.com/libusb/hidapi

Inspired by https://askubuntu.com/questions/699138/logitech-k380-bluetooth-keyboard-make-function-keys-default and https://github.com/libusb/hidapi, it's almost re-implementation of hidapi actually, with dart:ffi calling the syscall directly.